Accessing dynamically generated variables from HTML forums ?

[htiek]

I have a page that reads from a database and generates html for each entry.
I have placed a html checkbook beside each result from the query, the name of the checkbox is the same as the primary key number of the resource as retrieved from the database.

For example
<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="1">1 “other resource information here”
<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="2">2 “other resource information here”
I end up with about 200 checkboxes with values 1-200

Now as this was generated dynamically in theory the name value could go up indefinitely. My problem is when I check the boxed I want checked in the HTML form and send it to the php script I don’t know how to access the variable because I dont know what its name is it could be anything from 1-200 or higher.

In need to write some code that can handle dynamically generated variables or something. I would be good If I could simply access everything that was sent from the forum without hardcode.

There is probably a simple solution to this I’m just missing

any help is much Appreciated

Here is the code (some of it) that generates the html forum

<?PHP
	$query = "select * from links order by linkNo";						
	$results = mysql_query($query);
	$num_results = mysql_num_rows($results);
	echo "<form action='filename.php' method='post' name='linkcheck' class=\"linktext2\">";
	for ($i=0; $i < $num_results; $i++){
		$row = mysql_fetch_array($results);
		echo "<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME=\"".stripslashes($row["linkNo"])."\">";		
		echo "<a href='http://".stripslashes($row["linkaddress"])."' target=\"blank\">".stripslashes($row["linktitle"])."</a><br/>";
		// more code
	}
	//more code
?>

[paulnaj]

All the checkboxes should have the same NAME attribute, "check_linkno[]" for example. Put the '[]' at the end to signify that the all the checkboxes are related.

You store the 'linkno' in the VALUE attribute.

The variable $check_linkno in you php-response page will then contain an array of all checkboxes that were checked.

eg.

HTML FORM PAGE

<form action="checkbox_test.php" name="frm">
<input type="checkbox" name="fred[]" value="1">Fred 1
<input type="checkbox" name="fred[]" value="2">Fred 2
<input type="submit">
</form>

PHP RESPONSE PAGE (checkbox_test.php)

foreach($_GET["fred"] as $n => $v){
	echo "<hr>".$n." = ".$v;
}

[htiek]

you rock! that sorted it out

I knew there was a way just didn't know how

😃